Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 155
His rich master sent him journeys on business, and on one occasion his way led him to his native town of Eisenach.
Who acts: rich master, father, way · What happens: send, journey, lead · To what, where: business, father, one occasion
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich master, father, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 master | nmod:poss |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 master | amod |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 journeys | nsubj |
| 6 | journeys | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | ccomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 business | case |
| 8 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 journeys | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 led | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 led | cc |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 occasion | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 occasion | nummod |
| 13 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | obl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | nsubj |
| 16 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 led | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 town | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 town | nmod:poss |
| 20 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 town | amod |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Eisenach | case |
| 23 | Eisenach | Eisenach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 town | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | father's rich master | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | journey | present | father | business | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on business=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | father's way | father | one occasion | to father's native town of Eisenach | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on occasion=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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